"The Army's view is that the presence of women up front distracts the soldier. But these three correspondents had disproved this. They asked no favors and gave none. They dug their own foxholes, and took front-line life without complaint. But other women correspondents in Paris demanded irately: 'If they can, why can't we?'"
Click here to read about the women reporters who went undercover to experience WAAC training.
The first woman journalist to be granted access to combat zones within American areas of operation was Dickey Chapelle, you can be read here...
Click here to read about Betty Wasson, CBS war correspondent.
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War correspondent Lee Miller was not the only fashion model to don olive drab for the
fourth-estate, so was Lee Carson (pictured).
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